Today, we will discuss about basic
historical method for write historical
writing according Historian Louis
Gottschalk. It is important method for search Islamic History s informations.
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First, specify topic. For make written
about history, book or journal or article, you must specify topic. Specify you
topic that want you research. You can choose whatever that you research.
Example, you want researched about Umayyad Caliphate, Abbasid Caliphate, and
other topic. It is first step for write history.
Second, collect sources. You can collect
primary and secondary sources. Primary sources , is sources that written
contemporary with historical event and secondary sources, is source that
written dont by eyewitness or writtendont contemporary with historical moment.
Primary sources can be book, archive, video, or other that contemporaries from
historical event that you research. Secondary sources can quoted from match
book about your historical topics. That written by modern historian. But, if
original primary sources hard to get, according Louis Gottschalk, we can quoted
from primary sources s citations at secondary sources.
Example, you research about History Of
Ottoman Empire. Many primary sources written by Turkish Language and you cannot
speak with this language. You can used Ottoman History Book with language that
you understand , that quoted from primary sources.
Third, internal and external critics.
External critics , for specify document s originality and internal citics , for
specify s document s credibility. This step, is criticize sources that we get
at before step. Criticize is this source credible and other. Included criticize
about document s oisinality and writter s credibility. Example, for document, you can seeing the
paper that used by write this document. If paper for document s match with
paper at age of historical moment that you research?
Fourth, corroborration or interpretation.
You must interpretate histoical narration that you get from several sources for reconstructed historical moments.
Fifth, historiography. You write historical
written from historical datas that you get at before process. At this process,
you make tried to write interest historical written with strong datas, interest
language, and structure written.
It is several step for make historical
written. And, this step can you practic at your historical research. Good luck”!
Refrences:
Gottschalk, Louis: Mengerti Sejarah, UI Press,
1986 M.
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